Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in-kernel, use it in more drivers.

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To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@...>, Frans Pop <elendil@...>, <arjan@...>, <akpm@...>, <dwmw2@...>, <alan@...>, <linux-kernel@...>
Date: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 - 8:00 pm

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 07:46:33PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
 > Dave Jones wrote:
 > > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 04:55:45PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
 > > 
 > >  > No, I spelled out a list of projects, what would break, and how it would 
 > >  > break.
 > >  > 
 > >  > Again,
 > >  > 
 > >  > * Red Hat driver disks.  The build process is unaware of the need to 
 > >  > bundle firmware.  Any use with Fedora (or, later, RHEL) will result in a 
 > >  > non-working driver, for the simple reason that firmware is not copied 
 > >  > onto the image.
 > > 
 > > For old RHEL - they won't support 2.6.27, so moot.
 > > For next-gen RHEL - they need fixing anyway.
 > > For Fedora, they don't (and hopefully won't) exist.
 > 
 > Grin,
 > http://docs.fedoraproject.org/fedora-install-guide-en/fc5/sn-bootoptions-hardware.html

I don't think any of this stuff has ever been actually used in a Fedora context.
We certainly haven't released any official ones ttbomk.

 > Or DKMS, which should package firmware:
 > http://linux.dell.com/projects.shtml

Not quite the same thing as a driver disk, but I'll humour you..
That handles MODULE_FIRMWARE fine afaik.  Though again, this doesn't see much
actual use in a Fedora context.

	Dave

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Prosaic firmware issues, Alexey Dobriyan, (Tue Jul 15, 9:11 pm)
Re: Prosaic firmware issues, Linus Torvalds, (Tue Jul 15, 9:45 pm)
Re: Prosaic firmware issues, David Woodhouse, (Wed Jul 16, 1:54 am)
Re: Prosaic firmware issues, Alexey Dobriyan, (Wed Jul 16, 10:19 am)
Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in..., Henrique de Moraes Holschuh..., (Tue Jul 15, 2:05 pm)
Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in..., Dave Jones, (Tue Jul 15, 8:00 pm)
Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in..., Arjan van de Ven, (Tue Jul 15, 12:04 pm)
Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in..., Benjamin Herrenschmidt, (Tue Jul 15, 1:05 am)
Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in..., Benjamin Herrenschmidt, (Tue Jul 15, 1:15 am)
Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in..., Arjan van de Ven, (Tue Jul 15, 12:56 am)
Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied , Oliver Neukum, (Tue Jul 15, 2:23 am)
Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied , Oliver Neukum, (Tue Jul 15, 12:52 pm)
Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in..., Rafael J. Wysocki, (Tue Jul 15, 4:45 pm)
Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in..., Rafael J. Wysocki, (Wed Jul 16, 5:28 pm)
Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in..., Rafael J. Wysocki, (Thu Jul 17, 4:42 pm)
Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in..., Rafael J. Wysocki, (Thu Jul 17, 6:25 pm)
Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in..., Rafael J. Wysocki, (Tue Jul 15, 7:45 pm)